The Palm Beach Post

Man faces Army desertion charge

- By Eliot Kleinberg Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Staff researcher Melanie Mena and staff writer Olivia Hitchcock contribute­d to this story. ekleinberg@pbpost.com Twitter: @eliotkpbp By Hannah Morse Palm Beach Post Staff Writer hmorse@pbpost.com

or the circumstan­ces. She also would not say if he is back in military custody.

RIVIERA BEACH — A 20-yearThe U.S. Marshals Service old man has been arrested said Monday the lead in Allen’s in Riviera Beach on charges case came from Waco, Texas, of desertion from the Army, and that he was arrested in according to jail records and Riviera Beach. authoritie­s. The Marshals Service said Tyler Michael Allen was it believed he remained in the booked Aug. Palm Beach County Jail as of 30 at the Monday morning.

Palm Beach Allen’s arrest listing has been County Jail deleted from the jail bookunder a ing database since his Aug. hold for the 30 arrest. Sheriff ’s spokes- U.S. Army woman Teri Barbera said fedDeserte­r eral records “are exempt from Informatio­n the booking blotter.”

Point in KenDatabas­es suggest Allen previously lived in West Virginia. It’s not known how long he was in Palm Beach County. Relatives could not be located for comment. tucky.

Army spokeswoma­n Elizabeth Chamberlai­n said Friday she could confirm only that Allen entered the Army in January and “his dates of service were until June 2018. Follow- ing his training, he served 28 days on active duty. He was a private and in the infantry.”

Chamberlai­n would not say where Allen was stationed or when or where he deserted better solution that I think it will make everyone happy,” she wrote in an update on JUPITER FARMS — The petithe Change.org petition. tion to change Jupiter Farms Instead, she’s proposing Road to Burt Reynolds Road to update the “Jupiter Farms that came about after the Center” sign at the corner actor died Thursday skyof Indiantown Road and rocketed past the expecta- Jupiter Farms Road to add tions of Jupiter Farms resi- “Home of Burt Reynolds.” dent Debi Oliva. As of Monday afternoon, the

Many seemed to love Olipetitio­n has gathered more va’s idea, but all the prop- than 6,500 signatures. erty owners who live off JupiOliva said she is trying ter Farms Road would have to get permission from the to agree. owner of Jupiter Farms Cen

The “Smokey and the Ban- ter as well as asking for finandit” actor owned a 153-acre cial help from the county. She ranch off the road, which is would also consider starting now a 30-home community a GoFundMe to raise money called Reynolds Ranch. for the sign, and donate the

“I was willing to person- remaining money to the Burt ally contact each of the ownReynold­s Institute for Film & tify our entrance,” she wrote. ers to obtain their permis- Theatre in North Palm Beach. A Reynolds family mem- sion and get the signatures, “I feel obligated to the sign- ber, who asked not to be however reading some com- ers of the petition, however, named, said of the scrapped ments made against the I feel that this will not only proposal to change Jupiter name change, I came to a honor Burt but will also beau- Farms Road: “Burt wouldn’t want to inconvenie­nce the people of Jupiter,” and added that a sign would be “lovely” and “a really good gesture.”

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CONTRIBUTE­D BY DEBI OLIVA A new petition seeks to replace the dilapidate­d Jupiter Farms Center sign to add a commemorat­ive touch for late actor Burt Reynolds.
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